RE: Is Evolution Observable?
May 1, 2014 at 10:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2014 at 10:51 pm by Rahul.)
(May 1, 2014 at 4:08 pm)ManMachine Wrote: Humans are primates of the genus homo. Apes; chimpanzee, bonobos, gorillas, orang-utans and gibbons (lesser apes) are also primates.
But humans are not apes.
Humans and Chimps are much more closely related to each other than either species is related to the Gorilla. And all three of these species are much, much more closely related to one another than any of them are to the Orangutan.
So how, in any logical sense, can you group both the Chimps and Orangutans as apes but not Humans?
What the fuck do you think humans are? The children of Adam and Eve in some super special, exalted state of existence, divorced from all of our animal cousins?
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.